Description

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TM 27 SE
4/152

WILBY
FOALS GREEN
Rowan House

(Formerly listed as Nos. 1 and 2, Russel's Green Cottages, RUSSEL'S GREEN)

12.2.86

GV
II
Former farmhouse, now 2 cottages. The smaller right hand cottage is unmodernised. Late C16 with early C19 alterations. Timber framed and plastered; at the front and rear the ground floor is faced in red brick. Thatched roof. two storeys and attic. Two ground floor two-light casement windows under segmental arches; Two first floor two-light and one single-light casements, all C19. Two C19 boarded doors. Two early C19 external stacks, one at each gable end. A good quality frame, mostly concealed in the left cottage. Evidence for many original windows. In each gable is an incomplete six-light mullion and transom window with cavetto mullions (both blocked). Original newel stairs (two flights). Intact roof: clasped and butt purlins, cranked wind-bracing, evidence for original dormers. There is no clear evidence for the original heating: presumably there was a stack set against the rear wall.

Listing NGR: TM2558172200

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26477000

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Recommended Books

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  Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair
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  Derbyshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990
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  Gloucestershire 1: The Cotswolds: Cotswolds Pt. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Berkshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Setting up a Listed Building Heritage Partnership Agreement: Historic England Advice Note 5